After the theft of
my first trek 710 I was beyond what a person should feel in the lost of something precious (I felt like Gollum). Within a month I found
My trek 500, it was a nice ride, however it wasn't the same. I crashed that one into a car (sun in my eyes) and then waited to see if I could find something better. Right around my birthday I did, this Trek 710!
Amazingly, This frame was even better then my first 710: it had the original forks, it was made in the USA, and being from 1978 it was 4 years older then my first one. Considering the Trek bicycle corporation only stared selling bikes in 1976, My vintage makes this bike the earliest trek I have ever seen.
Needless to say this one became my all time favorate soon after I built it up. Most of the parts came from my trek 500's crashed frame. Eventually I put a Deore Rear derailleur on and it's just amazing on these old road bikes. Later came my bag and fenders.
I was finally satisfied with my bicycle, not something to be taken for granted. In the summer of 2013 I completed the Marin Century on this bike, keeping up with all the carbon.
Alas... nothing lasts forever, By May 2014, I had logged over 3000 miles on this build. I was just headed home after a 15 mile ride, I went to enter the local bike path and a split second later I must have sensed someone coming, But he was going down hill fast. Before I knew it he ran into me right in the middle of my bike at what must have been very fast. He was on the ground screaming, so it was all I could do to try to help, truth be told the nice people near the path entrance rushed out after they herd the crash and helped the guy much more then I could ( both of us were in shock). He seemed OK enough to not need an ambulance , but he had broken the forks off his time triles bike and he broke the handlebars with his face. One of the people that lived near by gave him a ride back to San Francisco. All in all the situation could have been much worse, and everything worked of, I even found another vintage TREK (number 4).
